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# Dates and times
This chapter will show you how to work with dates and times in R. Dates and times follow their own rules, which can make working with them difficult. For example dates and times are ordered, like numbers; but the timeline is not as orderly as the numberline. The timeline repeats itself, and has noticeable gaps due to Daylight Savings Time, leap years, and leap seconds. Datetimes also rely on ambiguous units: How long is a month? How long is a year? Time zones give you another headache when you work with dates and times. The same instant of time will have different "names" in different time zones.